Rumer Willis once worried she wasn't 'skinny enough' to be Demi's daughter: 'I felt I could never be like her'

By Jeremy Helligar| 4 years ago

Though she's the picture of poise and confidence on Dancing with the Stars, Rumer Willis once felt she had too much to live up to…and slim down to.

Though she's the picture of poise and confidence on Dancing with the Stars, Rumer Willis once felt she had too much to live up to…and slim down to.

In a new interview with Us Weekly, the 26-year-old reveals that growing up the daughter of Demi Moore, 52, and Bruce Willis, 60, did a huge number on her self-esteem. After all, Demi's only one of Hollywood's most celebrated beauties ever.

"Every girl looks up to her mother, but my mom was larger-than-life and I felt I could never be like her. I just didn't feel like we were even the same caliber."

It didn't help that Rumer had to live out her awkward teen years under a media microscope.

"When social media started to boom, I was 14 or 15," she recalls. "Every time I went out in public and was photographed, people had something to say about how I looked."

Rumer also describes herself as a "nerd" growing up and laments being bullied by both her peers and the press.

"The worse things I read were that I looked like a man, or simply that I was ugly," she adds. "Any time I looked good, a story would say I had plastic surgery. Because God forbid I just looked good being me!"

Luckily for Rumer, she had two people in her life who were going through a lot of the same things.

"I'm really thankful that I had my sisters to lean on," she says of Scout, 23, and Tallulah, 21. "They are my best friends."